CHEER’s health team is always hard at work. To learn more about what the team has been up to over the past couple weeks, I turned to Kelly Umaña, CHEER’s Director of Health Programs. This is the first in an ongoing series of discussions that I’ll be having with Umaña. Our exchange has been edited lightly. What has CHEER's health team been up to? CHEER has been helping support more vaccine clinics in the Long Branch and Silver Spring community. Our goal is to ensure families h

Over at the Takoma Foundation’s website, Conexo and CHEER have been featured in a recently posted article. CHEER’s Bruce Baker and Vanesa Pinto are quoted. You can read the full piece here.

Systemic inequities are everywhere, and they are no less evident than right here in our own communities, especially Long Branch. The reality is that the community of Long Branch has never gotten the attention it deserves. Like many other similar communities across the country, communities with high immigrant populations and low median incomes frequently lack public services in proportion to the needs that they have. This reality has been reinforced by the temporary loss of th